Volume 01, Winter 1975
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Item Open Access Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 1, Winter 1975(University of Calgary, 1975-01) Klokeid, Terry J.; Roberts, Linda; Cook, Eung-Do; Stewart, Charlotte; Hofer, EarlThe ten papers presented in this first issue share the theme of the phonology of Canadian English. The authors were students in an undergraduate course on the history of English, winter term 1974. Some, but not all of the papers contain original observations. The common purpose of these articles is to make accessible to other undergraduate students materials dealing with Canadian English.Item Restricted Vowel shortening and T-voicing in Canadian English(University of Calgary, 1975-01) Campbell, A. LuellaThis paper will discuss three regional variations in Canadian dialects. Two of these regions have two rules, which do not seem to be present in the third dialect, Dialect C. These two rules differ in their ordering in the other two dialects, Dialects A and B. All three dialects have the general Canadian Raising Rule. The two rules, which are the subject for this paper, are the Vowel Shortening Rule and the T-Voicing Rule.Item Open Access A comparison of New Brunswick and Saskatchewan English(University of Calgary, 1975-01) Gordon, Barbara; Stevens, AnitaThis paper deals with the phonological differences of three dialects within two provinces in Canada. One dialect recorded was that from a region in New Brunswick, while the other two dialects were from different areas in Saskatchewan. The two informants from Saskatchewan came from the central and southwest regions.Item Open Access A comparison of M. Bloomfield's "Western (Saskatchewan)" dialect and a dialect from the Regina area(University of Calgary, 1975-01) Gullon, PBloomfield, in Southerland: (1973:31-32) presents a phonetic transcription for several dozen words in the "Western (Saskatchewan)" dialect of English. An analysis of this regional dialect shows a number of rather faulty generalizations in Bloomfield's treatment when compared with the dialects of five residents of the Regina area.Item Open Access Rule ordering in Canadian English(University of Calgary, 1975-01) Jones, BrendaOver ten years ago, "Morris Halle cited Martin Joos' data to demonstrate that some Canadian dialect differences can be characterized in terms of differently ordered rules." Two of these differently ordered rules are T-Voicing and Vowel Shortening, called for short Voicing and Shortening, respectively.Item Open Access The glottal closure sound in English(University of Calgary, 1975-01) Kemp, LeanneIn the Alberta dialect of English, there are three environments which will affect the pronuncation of the /t/ phoneme. While these pronunciations may be found to be widespread, their employment is optional and may vary on different occasions, even within the same individual and with the same word. These pronunciations are influenced by the surrounding phonological environment. Depending on the environment, the pronunciation of the /t/ may be: (1) voiceless aspirated (2) voiced or (3) changed to a glottal closure sound.Item Open Access G-deletion in Canadian dialects of English(University of Calgary, 1975-01) Murray, BrendaDialects differ in many ways. Canadian dialects differ among themselves. An example of this is in the presence or absence of a rule.Item Open Access An introduction to: trisyllabic laxing, vowel shift, and Canadian raising(University of Calgary, 1975-01) Rempel, RosemaryIn our English language we have a number of words that we know are somehow the same and yet we pronounce them very differently. Let's take a look at the phonetic form of some of these words, in particular, certain vowel sounds.Item Open Access The relevance of morpheme boundaries to nasal assimilation in Canadian English(University of Calgary, 1975-01) Roth, RuthConsider the words sink, blunt, frank, single, uncle and wind; all of which contain the phoneme /n/. Note that lint, blunt and wind differ from the others in the pronunciation of /n/. Sink, frank, single, and uncle all contain an /n/ folowed by a voiceless /k/ and herein lies the difference. It appears that when an /n/ and a /k/ appear together, nasal assimilation occurs, changing the alveolar nasal /n/ to the velar nasal /ŋ/.Item Open Access Canadian Raising in a Windsor, Ontario dialect(University of Calgary, 1975-01) Weber, DebbyThere is a rule found in most if not all Canadian Dialects in which the diphthongs /aw/ and /ay/ are heightened under varied conditions to produce [ʌw] and [ʌy]: this rule has been called Canadian Raising. Let us first look at the most common version of this phonological rule in Western Canada. We have to examine four phonetic environments to see where Canadian Raising is obligatory or blocked. These include the occurrence of the diphthongs /aw/ or /ay/ before a voiced or voiceless consonant, at the end of a word, or where followed by a syllable with primary stress.Item Open Access Australian Lowering: A study of one dialect difference between Canadian and Australian spoken English(University of Calgary, 1975-01) Welch, KayThe purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast dialects of Canadian and Australian English regarding the occurrence of the high front tense vowel /i/. I assume a common underlying representation for both dialects; it is irrelevant for present purposes that the vowel /i/ probably has a more abstract source.